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1. 49 new billionaires join ranks of super rich amid IPO frenzy

   Posted Oct 29th 2010, 12:00am by Staff Reporter

   ... Billionaire Daniel Ren in Shanghai The initial public offering bonanza and surging stock prices helped the mainland to produce 49 more billionaires this year, with Wahaha Group chairman Zong Qinghou crowned as China's richest man, according to Forbes magazine. The number of billionaires on the mainland jumped to 128 from 79 last year. The 400 super rich that made ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/728869/49-new-billionaires-join-ranks-super-rich-amid-ipo-frenzy
2. Comment - Blogs

   How spreading the wealth around helps communities and legacies

   Posted Apr 10th 2013, 09:42am by Anna Healy Fenton

   ... is under 29 and their spending power is climbing fast, Forbes says. But the region’s billionaire set is anything but young. The average age of the 25 Indonesian tycoons on the 2013 Forbes ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1211302/how-spreading-wealth-around-helps-communities-and-legacies
3. News - World - UNITED STATES

   Billionaire Bill Koch wins fake wines case

   Posted Apr 13th 2013, 12:00am by AFP

   ... News World fake wines Wine investors Billionaire Agence France-Presse in New York A US billionaire has won a court case in which he complained that wines costing thousands of dollars a bottle were phony. Bill Koch sued businessman Eric Greenberg over what he said was a batch of fake wine in a US$3.5 million purchase he made at auction. The jury in a US federal court agreed ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1213248/billionaire-bill-koch-wins-fake-wines-case
4. Lifestyle - Books - BOOKS

   Book review: Five Star Billionaire, by Tash Aw

   Posted Mar 31st 2013, 12:00am by SOPHIE CHEN

   ... Lifestyle Books Tash Aw Five Star Billionaire Sophie Chen Jin Tash Aw's third novel explores the mainland's rush to riches through the stories of five Malaysian-Chinese in modern Shanghai, writes Sophie Chen Jin Tash Aw's latest novel opens with the titular billionaire admitting: "There has always been something inherently childlike in my pursuit of money." ...

   http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/books/article/1202488/book-review-five-star-billionaire-tash-aw
5. News - Asia - INDIA

   India's mega rich lag far behind West in philanthropy

   Posted Mar 21st 2013, 12:00am by AFP

   ... slower at opening their wallets for charity. India now has 55 dollar-billionaires, the fifth-biggest number in the world, according to a Forbes ranking this month. But like other emerging ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1195722/indias-mega-rich-lag-far-behind-west-philanthropy
6. News - China - Hurun Global Rich List

   83 Chinese billionaires members of NPC and CPPCC: Hurun

   Posted Mar 08th 2013, 12:00am by Cary Huang

   ... billionaires, a private research consultancy says, making the annual NPC and CPPCC sessions under way in Beijing the biggest gathering of billionaires anywhere in the world. Thirty-one are NPC deputies ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1185828/83-chinese-billionaires-members-npc-and-cppcc-says-hurun-rich-list
7. Sany Heavy chairman tops Forbes rich list

   Posted Sep 09th 2011, 12:00am

   ... richest man for the second time in a week as a mainland construction boom helped raise his personal net worth to US$9.3 billion. The number of US dollar mainland billionaires increased to 146 ...

   http://beta.scmp.com/article/978446/sany-heavy-chairman-tops-forbes-rich-list
8. News - China

   Stay out of politics, billionaire Zong Qinghou warns Chinese entrepreneurs

   Posted Mar 14th 2013, 11:11am by Amy Li

   ... News China Zong Qinghou Hangzhou Wahaha Group Billionaires Amy Li A successful Chinese entrepreneur should understand but not participate in politics, said beverage tycoon Zong Qinghou, billed as  China’s richest man . “Understanding politics gives you hints about where society is heading”, Zong advised fellow businessmen in an interview with China’s Sina News, “and it will save ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1190447/stay-out-politics-billionaire-zong-qinghou-warns-chinese-entrepreneurs
9. News - China - WEALTH

   China has second-most billionaires on Forbes' global rich list

   Posted Mar 06th 2013, 12:06pm by Ernest Kao

   ... News China World Global Rich List Forbes Wealth Billionaires Ernest Kao ernest.kao@scmp.com Twenty-six Chinese nationals joined Forbes magazine’s recently published global rich list this year, bringing the country's total number of billionaires on the list to 122. The number of global billionaires hit a record 1,426 in 2013, with Mexican telecommunications mogul Carlos Slim ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1182440/china-has-second-most-billionaires-forbes-global-rich-list
10. News - China - SOCIETY

    Chinese millionaires pay for riches in lost sleep and health, says happiness report

    Posted Jan 16th 2013, 12:00am by Daniel Ren

    ... News China Chinese millionaires Billionaires wealth in China Hurun report Daniel Ren in Shanghai ren.wei@scmp.com For all their riches, the mainland's millionaires have paid a high price in health, family life and even sleep. According to The Millionaires Happiness Report , compiled by the Hurun Research Institute, the richer they are the less they sleep. According ...

    http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1128988/mainland-millionaires-pay-riches-sleep-says-new-hurun-report

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